The Auckland waterfront with Māori waka and the original St Paul's building above Point Britomart, painted in 1852.Point Britomart at the far right, seen from the east end of Official Bay, with Fort Britomart atop it.Point Britomart being quarried away. The original St Paul's building above the works was pulled down in 1885 as a result of being made structurally unsound from these works.[1]Waterfront in ca 1930, with the older coastline of 1841 also shown as a darker line. Point Britomart is the sharp headland in the centre.
Point Britomart (Māori: Te Rerenga Ora Iti) was a headland in the Waitematā Harbour, in Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau), New Zealand. Located between Commercial Bay and Official Bay,[2] the point was later quarried away to produce fill for land reclamation in Mechanics Bay, and almost no physical trace remains at street level in what is today an area of the Auckland CBD and the Auckland waterfront.
^"STAINED Historical Stories – Talk 4". St Paul's. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
^Auckland's waterfront and its changing face (Auckland City Library, includes various further references)
PointBritomart (Māori: Te Rerenga Ora Iti) was a headland in the Waitematā Harbour, in Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau), New Zealand. Located between Commercial...
locomotive named BritomartPointBritomart, a former headland between former Commercial Bay, and Official Bay, Auckland, New Zealand Britomart Transport Centre...
of the area, marked by an official ceremony on the now non-existent PointBritomart (Te Rerenga Ora Iti). The initial centre of the new town was focused...
others representing the Ngāti Whātua iwi. A flagstaff was erected on PointBritomart, and Her Majesty's health was "most rapturously drunk with cheers long...
of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Britomart, after the Britomartis of Greek mythology: HMS Britomart was a 16-gun brig-sloop captured from the...
The city's first church, St Paul's and the Fort Britomart army barracks, were built on PointBritomart in 1841. When St Paul's was founded by Governor...
reclaimed land. Customs Street East began as a seawall between Point Stanley and PointBritomart across Commercial Bay, a former bay that used to exist on...
Volcano had been entirely quarried, and by the 1880s the non-volcanic PointBritomart headland was quarried to be used as fill for land reclamation in Mechanics...
Street Wharf, building a quay along Customs Street and a breakwater at PointBritomart. After the Auckland Harbour Board was established in 1871 by the council...
opened. Auckland's first railway was the 13 km (8.1 mi) line between PointBritomart and Onehunga via Penrose, opened in 1873. It was built by Brogdens...
main Auckland waterfront. Along the harbour shore between PointBritomart and St Stephen's Point in Parnell were four bays: Official Bay, Mechanics Bay,...
framed by two substantial headlands, Smale's Point dividing it from Freemans Bay in the west and PointBritomart dividing it from Official Bay and Mechanics...
Takaparawhau / Bastion Point designed by Tibor Donner and Anthony Bartlett with a sculpture by R. O. Gross, built above the disused Fort Britomart. It has large...
double-track rail tunnel underneath Auckland's city centre, between Waitematā (Britomart) and Maungawhau (Mount Eden) railway stations. Two new underground stations...
Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret is an oil painting on canvas by English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1833 and now in Tate Britain. Intended...
Zealand. 18 September — The British flag is raised at the fort on PointBritomart on the southern shore of the Waitematā Harbour marking the foundation...
Tree' sculpture that was located in Queen Elizabeth II Square outside of Britomart from 1971 until 2002 was installed in the new Jellicoe Square. The August...
ready-made broad deep ditch and parapet—PointBritomart. Though the area for buildings was not large, the point faced the harbour entrance and was deemed...
transport system in half a century: Waitematā station was opened in 2003 as Britomart Transport Centre, the first major upgrade of Auckland's rail network since...
officially named the suburb as Stanley Point. The area is named after Owen Stanley, captain of HMS Britomart (1808), who conducted a survey of the Waitematā...
trapped by ice near Southampton Island, and did not reach Repulse Bay. At one point, the ice forced her 12 m (39 ft) up the face of a cliff. She was trapped...
mill during the Crimean War and sold in 1857. HMS Bruiser (1867) was a Britomart-class gunboat launched in 1867 and broken up at Devonport in 1886. HMS Bruiser (1895)...
other use area in Ljubljana, Slovenia Batticaloa Airport (IATA code) Britomart Transport Centre, New Zealand Bucharest Tower Center, a building in Romania...
the Surf Life Saving Northern Region.[citation needed] Queen Street, Britomart, Ponsonby Road, Karangahape Road, Newmarket and Parnell are major retail...
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